War matters, so promoting this conversation to a post. Mister Grumpus asks: > The narrative is shifting to the Russians managing to muddle through anyway, and the blue-and-yellow Ukraine flags have all but vanished from Twitter. Ukraine has been attempting World War I tactics, which worked great for a little while, but they are starting to run out of troops willing to fight. Currently it is World War I, which …
Category: war
Russians stupidly and stubbornly persisting with World War II Blitzkreig in the Ukraine
They attempted a blitzkrieg to surround and cut off the “city” of Severodonetsk A tiny insignificant city about twenty five blocks by fifteen blocks. The city center consists of a supermarket, a couple of gas stations, a couple of auto repair shops, a car accessory store, a food takeaway shop, a bank, a nail salon, a hotel cafe, a pub, and a remarkably large number of government offices. The town …
Russia halted in the Ukraine.
This is not exactly defeat – Russia has grabbed a lot Russian speaking Ukraine territory, and has connected the Crimea to Russia by land. It has also inflicted huge costs on the GAE, the Global American Empire, or rather it has provoked the Global American Empire into inflicting huge costs on itself. You may have heard that the Russian financial system is in chaos. Nope. The Russian financial system is …
War and the gay parade
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has given a sermon that reduced numerous officially unofficial mouthpieces of the Global American Empire’s officially unofficial state religion to incoherent rage. The war in the Ukraine is a holy war – not because Putin is holy, but because the unofficially official state religion that seeks to rule the world is unholy. The proximate cause of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was …
Current events
This blog does not normally report, nor pay much attention to, current events, except as they illustrate the long sweep of history. But, there is a bunch of stuff happening now. Four demons doing a weak-ass imitation of the the four horsemen of the apocalypse are on their way. First and foremost for me is that the heat on crypto currency is going up, and it looks like the blood …
sudden swerve in the path to the left singularity
The Cathedral has abandoned the Awesome and Mighty Covid Demon narrative, and the innocent peaceable dark skinned joggers capriciously attacked by white predators for no apparent reason narrative, in favor of the universal support for war against Russia narrative. You think censorship has eased? The internet connections with Russia are being cut. A precondition for war with Russia is getting enough people to be inside the war bubble. YouTube is …
What our enemies revealed in the fall of Kabul
Newt Gingrich: “Sad not a single women’s group on the left is up in arms about Afghanistan.” Of course not. Feminism and female emancipation is merely a shit test, and women love men who pass their shit tests, and hate men who fail them. Reflect on the savage hatred that feminists bear against Greek letter fraternities and rich and famous movie producers who fail to rape them, with their eager …
The fall of the Republic
PJ Media correctly observes of the botched and disorderly retreat from Afghanistan: This ensures that the catastrophe, rather than diminishing, has only just begun. It will not end when the last qualified person leaves Kabul but when the U.S. political system has found a constitutional way to clean house. Compare and contrast with the orderly and dignified Soviet retreat from Aghanistan. A constitutional house cleaning is unlikely to be practical, …
Where we are now
A survey of the talking heads talking about the fall of Kabul confirms that our major military objective in Afghanistan was to teach nine year old girls to put a condom on a banana. I am happy about the fall of Kabul, because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. It is where empires go to die, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that the enemy of your enemy is …
Kabul has fallen
It has not quite officially fallen yet, at least not officially as I post, but this is normality bias, plus the fact that it is taking a while for the Taliban leadership to move from Pakistan to Kabul. Due to normality bias, six thousand US troops are due to arrive, and six hundred British troops are arriving, which could result in interesting events, as official reality encounters actual guns, in …